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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
1OULMI,
V.
CLARKE.


Appeal from the Chancery Court of
Hancock county. Hon. Sylvanus
Evans, Chancellor.
Posey & Bowers, for the appellant.
w. p. q ]. B. Harris, for the APP
pellee.
James Clarke exhibited this bill in
chancery against John V. Toulmi, in
which he set out that defendant, on
May Is, 1884, executed certain promis-
sorry note for $1,000 in favor of Messrs.
Fairchild & Keller, and secured the
same by mortgage on certain lands I;
that on September 4, 1884, this note
and mortgage were endorsed to him by
Fairchild & Keller, and that he is now
the bona fide owner and holder thereof !;
that defendant has paid complainant
$500 on said note and that the remainder
is still due. The prayer of the bill is
for foreclosure of the mortgage. The
bill is signed by the solicitor for the
complainant and is not sworn to.
The defendant answered after making
other defences as follows: "And respon-
dent denies upon information and belief
that James Clarke, the complainant, is
the endorsee of said note and denies
that he is the owner and holder thereof"
The answer is sworn to by the defen-
dant.
The original note with the endorse
ments thereon was filed as an exhibit to
the bill.
The cause was set down for final h ear
ing upon the bill, exhibits and answer.
The chancellor rendered a decree for
the complainant. The defendant APP
pealed.
CAMPBELL, j., delivered the opinion of
the Court.
The rule of courts of chancery which
requires more than the testimony of one
witness to overthrow an answer denying
allegations of the bill applies only when
the denial is positive. and does not
apply where the denial is as to belief OF
is as matter of inference or argument
l Daniels Oh, Pl. & Pr, 844.
1t is true that when the answer posi-
lively denies, the court will not inquire
into the grounds of the denial, as held
in MCGEE v. White, 81 Miss, ~, but
the rule, as stated above, remains
affirmed.
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AT Walden.

Watchman-by Fl. G. Williamson.
*Journal-by c. P. Adair.
Those marked with are now in ex-
istence.
could give brief history of these
papers, their politics and editors, did
space allow. Where paper is still in
existence / have given the names of the
party who established it, and the present
owners. This is a statement for t.old'
Carroll. Since the county was divided
Greenwood is in Lefore, Winona and
Duck Hill in Montgomery.
Yours, B. f. JONES.
Winona, April %, 1887.
The Historians of Mississippi Press
Association will be pleased to receive
similar sketches from every county in
the State A statement Of the politics
of each journal, how long published, and
personal mention of editors and publish
ers, is desired as far as the same can be
furnished.
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The Press OF OLD CARROLL COUNTY.

THE Press OF OLD CARROLL COUNTY.
Col. J. L. POWER, CHAIRMAN: In re-
Spouse to a request in The CLARION,
asking for history of the Press of the
various counties, / will state that | en-
tered the Office of The Statesman, at Car
rollton, October /, 1914, and am the
Oldest of the crew of the county. The
county was organized in 1884. The
papers published in the county are as
follows:
AT CARROLLToN
Carrollton Democrat, QS3O by Mr.
Franklin.
Hornet-by G. w. H. Brown.
Dollar Democrat-by E. Percy Howe.
Mississippi Democrat-by F. c. Jones
& J. Durdin.
Wing Flag-by G. w. H. Brown.
Union Flag-by B. F. Jones.
Know Noth;ng-by E. L. Clark.
Mississippi Democrat-by Samuel A.
Nelson.
*Conservative-estab by B. F.
Jones, now owned by j. Ell. Curry.
AT GREENWOOD.
Reporter-by E. L. Travis (1S45.)
Valley Sentinel-by G. E. Merrill.
Oriental-by w. d. Peery.
*Yazoo Valley Flag established by
B. F. Jones, now owned by Coleman &
Davidson.
*Enterprise-by Will D. Cowan.
AT DUCK BILL.
Post-by ". D. Cowan.
*Furnace-by ]. G. Roseborough.
AT WIN0NA.
Vidette-by r. Walpole.
Democrat-by Spivey & Boothe.
Republican-by w. J. Parker.
*Advance established by B. F.
Jones & H. d. Money, now owned by
Apologize & Moore:
Free Press-by A. B. burt & Young.
Rural Mississippiau-by DIR. w. A.
Hurt.
shines - established by John w.
Ward, now owned by w. A. Hurt.
*Farmer-by Farmers Relief, edited
By Dr. w. A. Hurt.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

TIE Pension Bureau is turning out
Mexican war pensions at the rate of
thirty per day. There were two Missis-
sippi regiments in the Mexican war, and
many of the pensioners reside in this
State.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

Caickasaw Messenger
A syndicate has purchased a large
body of lands adjoining the railroad
lands ON the Kansas City Railroad near
Cotton Gin, where there will ere long be
a thriving town. The railroad company
will locate their shops at this point, and
this, of itself, will bring some five OF six
hundred people to the town. In a short
time the Land Company will have the
streets laid out and the lots surveyed
and numbered when they will offer
them for sale. The site is one Of the
prettiest imaginable for the location OF
a town. Numerous springs Of clear
freestone water are to be seen on every
hand, and the healthfulness of the place
must be excellent. We understand the
new town is to be named Pratt City, IN
honor of Mr.. Pratt, the General SolIci
tor of the Kansas City Railroad.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

The killing of Rev. G. F. Stivers,
by Z. T. fowler, and at the home of the
latter, in Grenada last week, has been so
variously reported, that it would be well
to await judicial investigation before
forming an opinion of the unfortunate
affair
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

ONE of the complaints against Presi-
dent Cleveland is that he is "postmas-
tering" New York preparatory to the
compaign of 1888. So long as he uses a
good article of Democrat, that complaint
will not meet with much favor in the
South.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

The Pascagoula Denaorat-Star says
that Edward A. Mosely, who has been
appointed Secretary of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, is well know in
Harrison county, Mississippi, where he
resided temporarily. He is now classed
as a lumber merchant of Boston, men,
Der of the Legislature and a member-at-
large of the Democratic State Commit
tee of Massachusetts,.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
You Are Right.

A Washington correspondent writes {;
"lf Morrison r. Waite shall come to
remember that he is over seventy years
old, and have the grace to retire while
Cleveland is in the White House, Car
Isle will become Chief Justice of the
United States. And then we shall see
the greatest Chief Justice since Mar
shall"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

REV. Dr.. j. w. HoYT, the well known
Evangelist, died very suddenly, of ape
plexy, in New Orleans, on Friday last.
He had just held very successful meet
ing at Gloster, in this State, and had
commenced meeting in Carrollton,
near New Orleans.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

An unreasoning opposition was mani
tested in the last Legislature to the pas
sage of bill providing for the equal
ization of the values on the assessment
rolls of the various counties Of the State.
The measure was so proper and so just
that nothing could be said against it.
1t was confessed that the burden of tax
alton was unequal and that the fault
lay in the assessment laws; but persons
who could offer no other remedy voted
against the just one that was offered.
1t is most likely the question of equal
izing taxes or taxable values will come
before the next Legislature. Perhaps
the plan that was rejected in 1886 will
be again submitted for consideration.
1t is worthy of adoption, and no valid
reason can be shown in opposition to it.
1t is to be hoped that those who object
to the plan proposed in 1886, will have
something to offer in its place.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

We are as much opposed to political
courts as any mugwump could well be,
and yet we can't help rejoicing that a
majority of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia are
Democrats, to save our life.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

West Point Leader: Proteetiver 1arln
Democrats will find that they have out
little following in the great Democratic
party. The party is pledged to reform
on this question, and party leaders mus.
give the needed reform, or they VIII DC
set aside. Tariff for revenue only, IS d
Democratic principle. Protective tarln
is consistent only with an oppressive
form of governments government sus-
tanned by the many for the benent OIL
the few.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

A NEW postOffice has been established
In Lafayette county, Mississippi, with
the name of Holder, in honor of the
gallant Col. Holder of the Auditors
ofiice-James NJ. Taylor, p. NJ.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
A Confession of Guilt.

Meridian News.
The law says the railroad rates shal-
not unjustly discriminate between snip.
pers. When the railroads -clamor
against the law they admit that their
rates are and have been unjust, and
that their methods have not been talr
and equitable. This is the only burden
the law imposes at the same time per
hitting lust competition.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

The people of Holly Springs will
decorate the soldiers graves in the GENE
terry of that city, with imposing cere-
monies, on next Sabbath eve, the 9Th
inst, at o'clock.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

Moss Point Advertiser: Labor unions
are good things, but they should have
calm, conservative men at their head,
and settle all differences between en-
ployers and employees by arbitration,
that is, providing the employers show
any inclination whatever for an AMIGA
BILE adjustment.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

IT is rumored in Washington that Sir
Lionel Sackville West, the British Min
lister, and Miss Maggie Mitchell, daughter
OF Senator Mitchell, are engaged to be
married.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

The American National Bank has
been organized at Birmingham, Ala,
with Mr.. S. 7. Barnett, President of the
Capital State Bank of this city, as Pres =
ident
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
Not Ashamed of the Name
w ashington Post.l

Washington Post.
The term negro" has sometimes been
offensive to colored people, without any
particular reason. Finally convention
was held in St. Louis, which resolved
that the word "negro" was the proper
designation of their people. Once more
this month, it is used in the call OF ma
tional convention of negroes" IN lndl-
annapolis.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

TREAsUER JORDAN is again at his
post in Washington. His resignation
will be accepted and his successor named
at an early day.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

IT will be seen by the letter of our
fair correspondent, that the pretty
towns Of Sidon and Greenwood have
been on a boom.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

The following cases were reversed and
remdnded
524s-J. w. Barron, V. New Home Sew
ing Machine Co.
5503-W. K. Hardy, V. w. n. Gregg,
ct al.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

THE following is from the Times
Democrats account of the session of the
Interstate Commission at New Orleans
Representatives of the Southern Yellow
Pine Lumber Manufacturers Association
presented their case. They, too, are ham
pered by increased rates north of the Ohio
river. They were charged local rates from
St. Louis to Kansas City.
Mr.. Morrison called attention to the
fact that the main line between St. Louis
and Kansas City lies wholly within the
State of Missouri, therefore it is beyond the
Commissioners control If it advanced
rates, it advanced them on its own motion
and it was taking advantage of furry
not because the law compelled it.
1t was stated that only three of the
Southern roads had resumed former rates
since the fourth section of the law has been
suspended for their benefit.
This but adds to the accommodating
store of evidence that it is the perverse
and obstinate Interpretation of the law
by the railroads Of which the people
should complain. As it is those who
complain publicly but echo the objec.
tions of the railroads to the law.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
DECISIONS OF SUPREME COURT.
REPORTED FOR THE CLARION BY C. c.
CAMPBELL.

MONDAY, May 2, 1887.
The following cases were affirmed
5343-Mrs. E. J. Walker, V. Mrs. NJ. II.
Cooper.
5361-Berenice Barry, V. Sallie F. Barry.
5462-Gid Montoy, Y. w. r. Pillow.
5463-V. &: NJ. K. r. Co, V. Mary Phillips,
Admir-, &c.
5477-K. E. Walker, V. r. n. Piggott,
ct al.
5508-L., N. o. & T. r. r. Co., v. Jessie O.
Mask, Admir-.
5512-Sidney Ranile, ct al, V. r. Davis,
ct al.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
Mississippi Press History.

5549-Jno R. Murphy, Admir-, V. Samuel
Reedy, reversed and bill dismissed.
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chairman Interstate Commission

In other words, if the railroad COM
panies refuse to grant the usual facili-
ties for the transportation of the class
of persons mentioned, it will not be for
the reason that they are required to do
SO by the law, but for some other reason
which the public has not been slow to
detect
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
Explains Itself.
The following letter explains itself

Inc loiIoWing letteT explains nseH.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 49,
Sisters Of 81. Joseph, 81. LOUIS, No. !:
Yours of the 14th inst, requesting that
the railroad companies be authorized to
give you free transportat ton, as they
have been accustomed to do, has been
received and considered, and the CON-
mission regrets that it can make no
order upon them for your benefit. The
railroad companies must determine for
themselves what shall be their policy in
the granting of favors 20 persons en-
gagged in religious work. The statute in
plain terms allows the giving of reduced
rates to ministers of religion, and if
they are given on some general and i'm
partial rule, no question of its legality
could arise, and no railroad company
could have occasion to fear penalties.
Very respectfully yours,
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Mr.. Clay has more than once declared
that in no Congress of which he had
knowledge has there been assembled
such a galaxy of eminent and able men
as were in the House of Representatives
of the Congress which declared war
against England in 1912 and the one fol-
lowing it. Mr.. Calhoun was elected to
that Congress at the age of twenty-seyeu
years. He had been admitted to the bar
only two years before. Yet this ua-
known young man, this obscure
attorney from an obscure coun-
try village, a stranger to elegant
accomplishments and graces of scholar
ship, before he had made speech, took
his place at the head of those distin-
guished and brilliant men, as their
equal and their superior, and maintained
1t with increasing power and ever-widen-
ing fame to the end. In the light of
after events the cause of this extraordi-
nary circumstance could be easily dis |
cerned. In the presence of great i'm
pending crisis, full of solemn import to
men of sense and virtue, whose extent
the most far-sighted cannot fully meas
ure, and before whose dangers the most |
resolute naturally quail; when the voice
of faction is hushed and rivalries and |
animosities cease; in such a crisis de-
handing Immediate action, mastery and |
go out of their own accord to |
the master spirit, to the man of tran 1
scendent intellect, bravery of soul. |
promptness OF decision, energy OF ac-
ton, all strengthened, sustained and |
Sluhed by an ardent and disinterested
patriotism.
From the day that our government
vas established our relations with for
ign nations were troubled and uncer-
am. Soon after the Constitution was
tut into force mighty war broke out
between France and England, during
.hich both belligerents disregarded the
Ights OF the United States aud their in
erests as an independent nation. Wash /
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

Another reason why this statue should
be erected to his memory is that it is
due to him for his intellectual contribu-
tions to the age in which he lived.
Apart from his career as q statesman in
the House of Representatives, where he
was conspicuous by his nationality in
maintaining the Independence of his
country among the powers of the world /;
apart from his seven years service in a
Cabinet Office, which his powerful mind
impressed itself on the organization and
practical operations of the Executive
Department of the Government; apart
from his long years of service as Vice
President of the United States, apart
from that unparalleled parliamentary
career in the United States Senate.
where, opposed by those giants of debate,
the mighty Webster of the North and
Clay of the West; backed by other Sem
ators gifted with talents of the highest
order, he, single-handed, maintained his
position in those grand orations, one of
which the best of judges has pronounced
unsurpassed by any recorded in modern
or ancient times, not even excepting
that of the great Athenian on the
CROWN" putting, / say, out of view all
his achievements and measures as a
public man, constituting as they do
some of the brightest chapters in the
history of this country, he has left, in
his writings, considered as the produc-
lions of an author, legacy which will
perpetuate the sway of his immortal
thought over the minds of men. In
these writings he has given to the world
profound studies and original views
upon the principles Of government and
free institutions; the deepest analysis
and the most systematic classification of |
those universal laws which, hidden from
ordinary observation, operate silently on |
human society and influences the fate
Of nations in all ages Of the world. J
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Pratt City.
Caickasaw Messenger.

)SCLUDED II MKT ISSUE
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

After the adoption of the Constitu
ton, the moral, social and material
forces which have always been more
powerful in moulding the institution in
determining the destinies of nations,
than internal legal forms, combined tc
increase the power and magnify the i'm.
portance of the General Government OF
the Union at the expense of that of the
particular government of the States
When independence was first achieved
the original States lay stretched along
the Atlantic coast, sparsely peopled, sep,
arated by vast wiidernesses, with no
means of internal communication and
trade. except by stage, pack-horses and
sumpter mules on land, AMI hst-boats
RATS and bateaus on the water. Since
then, the locomotive and the steamboat
not only annihilate distance, but, "Iike
enormous shuttle-cocks, shoot across the
thousand various threads of discon-
neeted sections, localities, interests and
influences, and bind them into a web.
while the electric telegraph transmits to
every part of the country, at the same
moment, the same intelligence, thus
uniting the minds of vast population
in the same thought and emotion.
But a cause more potent than any vet
mentioned has operated to determine
the character and tendency of our politi-
cal System. | refer to the acquisition by
the Federal Government of the vast ter
ritory embraced in the Louisiana pur.
chase, and tat coded by Spain and
Mexico to the United States. These
territories, far exceeding in area that of
the original thirteen States, belonged
exclusively to the Federal Government.
No separate State government had the
slightest jurisdiction upon one foot of
the soil of that vast domain. The pub
lie lands were surveyed by officers of the
Federal Government, and titles to them
were conveyed by the Federal Govern
ment in its character of private proprie-
tor as well as of public sovereign. The
population who settled these territories
had no political rights save those inn
parted to them by the Federal Govern
ment. Their very limited powers of self
were enjoyed under terrific
rial Constitutions framed and prescribed
for them by the Federal Congress. and
when they became States it was by the
permission Of Congress, which Admitted
them under such conditions and terms
IS it deemed proper under the Constitu-
lion, so that when the forces which had |
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
LAKE WEIR WAITS.
Sudden Death of Miss Fay Turnkey
From Typhoid Malaria.


From Typhoid Malaria.
LAKE WEIR, FLA, Aug. 23--Miss Fay
TURNKEY, mentioned in yesterdays MORN
ING NEWS as recovering from an attack of
typhoid malarial fever, was suddenly taken
worse and died to-day
Miss Fay was the daughter of w II. and
Amelia Turnkey, both of whom are in
Clarksville, Tenn, and were ignorant of her
sickness, as neither friends nor physician
thought her case critical until to-day. Her
brother, w. ID. Turnkey, of Ocala, formerly
one of the proprietors and editor of the
Florida Independent, arrived after his sis
ter's death
The Temperance Convention, at Ocala.
yesterday, was a success Delegates wore
present from all the precincts of the county.
The temperance people are sanguine that
prohibition will win in the election next
month. The leading men among the col
ored people are earnest supporters of the
dry" ticket.
Col. Tom Harris, of the Rural Free
Press and wife, returned to Ocala, after q
pleasant vacation in Kentucky and Ten
neSSee
Mr.. Freeman, of this place. met with a
serious accident in Ocala While working
on one of Ocala's new stores, he made a
misstep and fell fifteen feet, receiving Sc
rious but not fatal injuries
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A SUIT FOR A HORSE.
A Peculiar State of Affairs Growing
Out of a Theft

GRIFFIN, GA, Aug. 25.-GrifIin is about
to have an interesting lawsuit in regard to
the ownership of horse. In May, 1877, w.
b. Hudson, a liveryman of this city, hired a
horse and buggy TO young man to drive a
few miles in the country. Neither the
young man nor the horse and buggy ever
returned, and Mr.. Hudson failed III all his
efforts to find any trace of them Yester-
day young man well-known in Griffin,
who is connected with the Atlanta and
Hawkinsvillc Railroad Construction Com
pany, rode n fine bay horse
into town. Mr.. Hudson saw the horse and
was Immediately struck with something pc
culiar in his appearance. He stopped the
young man and examined the horse closely,
and after doing so declared that it was his
long lost horse. The gentleman who was
riding the horse stated that il belonged TO
Capt Collier, one of the engineers of the
Atlanta and Hawkinsville road, of whom
he had borrowed it to ride into town, and
that Capt Collier would he down on
the afternoon train, and Mr.. Hudson could
settle the matter with him. Mr. Collier
came down from Atlanta or the 4 o'clock
train, and Mr.. Hudson laid hrs claim before
him. Mr.. Collier stated that he bought the
horse from well-known citizen Of Atlanta,
which could be easily proven. Mr.. Hudson
swore out poSsessory warrant for the
horse, and the case will be tried before JUS
tice X, NJ Collins, next Monday.